Defining a product status handler
The
AbstractStatusHandler
class and the
org.eclipse.ui.statusHandlers
extension point make up the generic mechanism that can be used to customize
problem handling for the given product. The main purpose of this extension is
to define status handlers (which extends
AbstractStatusHandler)
and to specify the binding between a product and a status handler. For example,
the following contribution defines a hypothetical status handler to be used
by the workbench:
<extension point="org.eclipse.ui.statusHandlers">
<statusHandler
class="org.eclipse.ui.statushandlers.SampleStatusHandler"
id="sampleStatusHandler"/>
<statusHandlerProductBinding
handlerId="sampleStatusHandler"
productId="productId">
</introProductBinding>
</extension>
This contribution first defines the status handler and assigns it the id "sampleStatusHandler". It then binds this
handler to a product whose id is "productId". When the status handling facility is accessed first time,
the class specified in the class attribute will be instantiated by the workbench and used for handling of
status or error occurred in the product.
The platform supplies its own
AbstractStatusHandler
implementation called
WorkbenchErrorHandler.
